Nonkonformisten

Questions of gender identity were just as pressing 300 years ago as they are today. This is not a discussion of whether Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754) was queer. Rather, it is the premise for demonstrating how, in his deeply original authorship in the first half of the 18th century, he wrote forth a tra...

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מחבר ראשי: Magnus Sejersted, Jørgen
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יצא לאור: Fagbokforlaget Vigmostad & Bjørke 2026
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